mirror of
https://git.lyx.org/repos/lyx.git
synced 2025-01-06 09:37:31 +00:00
update ANNOUNCE for 1.4.1
git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X@13515 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
This commit is contained in:
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
parent
88d71d9375
commit
8fb2ca7e5a
181
ANNOUNCE
181
ANNOUNCE
@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
|
||||
Public release of LyX version 1.4.0
|
||||
Public release of LyX version 1.4.1
|
||||
===================================
|
||||
|
||||
We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.4.0.
|
||||
We are glad to announce the release of LyX 1.4.1. This is a bug fix
|
||||
release, but some of the bugs were big, in particular:
|
||||
|
||||
It is the culmination of 3 years of hard work, and we sincerely hope
|
||||
this you will enjoy the results. The changes are too numerous to
|
||||
summarize in a few words, jump directly to the end of this message if
|
||||
you want to know more.
|
||||
- fix enormous memory consumption and slowness with documents
|
||||
containing a lot of graphics and preview.
|
||||
|
||||
As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
|
||||
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
|
||||
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
|
||||
- fix delay when exiting from a math inset.
|
||||
|
||||
- let the change tracking code track paragraph breaks too.
|
||||
|
||||
Also, this will be the first 1.4 release with a windows installer.
|
||||
|
||||
See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release.
|
||||
|
||||
@ -38,31 +39,39 @@ http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
|
||||
internationalized application running natively on Unix/Linux and the
|
||||
Macintosh and modern Windows platforms.
|
||||
|
||||
You can download LyX 1.4.0 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
|
||||
You can download LyX 1.4.1 here (the .bz2 are compressed with bzip2,
|
||||
which yields smaller files):
|
||||
|
||||
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
|
||||
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.0.tar.bz2
|
||||
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.bz2
|
||||
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.4.1.tar.bz2
|
||||
|
||||
and it should propagate shortly to the following mirrors (which will also host
|
||||
the .bz2 versions):
|
||||
|
||||
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz
|
||||
http://lyx.mirror.fr/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
|
||||
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/LyX/stable/lyx-1.4.1.tar.gz
|
||||
|
||||
Note that no patch is provided to upgrade from version 1.3.7.
|
||||
|
||||
Prebuilt binaries (rpms for linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
|
||||
installers) should soon be available at
|
||||
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.0/
|
||||
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.1/
|
||||
|
||||
If you already have the LyX 1.4.0 sources, you may want to apply one
|
||||
of the following patches instead
|
||||
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.1.gz
|
||||
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.4.1.bz2
|
||||
|
||||
Note that this patch will not produce valid LyX/Mac sources, since
|
||||
some binary files have been added for this release.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.0, you may either
|
||||
If you find what you think is a bug in LyX 1.4.1, you may either
|
||||
e-mail the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel @ lists.lyx.org), or open
|
||||
a bug report at http://bugzilla.lyx.org
|
||||
|
||||
@ -79,133 +88,3 @@ The LyX team.
|
||||
What's new in version 1.4.0?
|
||||
----------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
** Improved user interface
|
||||
|
||||
LyX 1.4 has a re-designed layout for the menus, designed to decrease
|
||||
clutter and maximise productivity. Several menu items (in the Edit
|
||||
menu) are now context-sensitive, so they only appear when needed. For
|
||||
the die-hard old LyX users, the older layout (referred to as the
|
||||
classic UI) is still available, for now.
|
||||
|
||||
It's now possible to define multiple toolbars as seen in other
|
||||
editors. By default, the new LyX release has two toolbars displayed,
|
||||
the standard one (similar to the static toolbar in LyX 1.3), plus the
|
||||
extra toolbar. In addition, there are two pre-defined toolbars
|
||||
available: one for tables, and one for math.
|
||||
|
||||
Another new feature worth mentioning is popup toolbars: you can set a
|
||||
toolbar such that it only appears when editing math, or when editing a
|
||||
table.
|
||||
|
||||
** Change tracking
|
||||
|
||||
This new feature, similar to that found in Microsoft Word and others,
|
||||
makes collaboration on a document a cinch. It provides a way to track
|
||||
changes made to a document, and later approve, reject, or modify such
|
||||
changes.
|
||||
|
||||
** Much better conversion from .tex to .lyx
|
||||
|
||||
The ancient and unloved Perl script, reLyX has finally bitten the dust
|
||||
and been replaced by the brand new and shiny tex2lyx. tex2lyx's LaTeX
|
||||
parser follows most of the rules of the real TeX and so is already
|
||||
much more powerful than reLyX ever was.
|
||||
|
||||
** Character styles
|
||||
|
||||
For a system that purports to make it easy to write documents full of
|
||||
logical (as opposed to visual markup), LyX has always had one glaring
|
||||
omission: no character styles. LyX 1.4 goes some way towards
|
||||
addressing this defect, although there's no dialog to define your own
|
||||
styles.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
** Branches
|
||||
|
||||
The teacher who's setting an exam obviously doesn't want her pupils
|
||||
seeing the answers, yet having questions and answers in the same
|
||||
document will make the life of the markers of that exam much easier.
|
||||
|
||||
That's just one example of someone who would benefit from LyX's new
|
||||
"branches" feature. In fact, anyone who writes documents which have
|
||||
more than one target audience will find this feature useful.
|
||||
|
||||
** Minipages evolve to Boxes
|
||||
|
||||
In 1.3, LyX only had native support for plain minipages. Now you can
|
||||
use a wide range of box types and decorations directly from the LyX
|
||||
GUI
|
||||
|
||||
** Notes
|
||||
|
||||
LyX now has three different Notes for you to add to your document from
|
||||
the Insert>Note menu:
|
||||
|
||||
- the "LyX Note" is not exported to LaTeX, as now. The "Comment" is
|
||||
- exported to LaTeX as a comment environment and is not processed
|
||||
further.
|
||||
- The Greyed Out note is visible in your PostScript or PDF output as,
|
||||
well, greyed-out text.
|
||||
|
||||
** Better language and numbering on screen
|
||||
|
||||
Two features help to make the screen rendering closer to the printed output:
|
||||
|
||||
- the labels attached to layouts like Chapter are now translated in
|
||||
the language of the document, which may be different from the
|
||||
language of the menus;
|
||||
- sectioning headers and theorems are now numbered according to the
|
||||
document class specifications.
|
||||
|
||||
** Word count
|
||||
|
||||
Yes, it's finally there! Tools>Count Words will give you a word
|
||||
count of the document or of the current selection.
|
||||
|
||||
** Error Lists
|
||||
|
||||
Nasty "error boxes" were eliminated in favor of a dialog with a list
|
||||
of errors popping up at compilation time.
|
||||
|
||||
** Improved bibliography support
|
||||
|
||||
- LyX's support for natbib has been enhanced. Now, also the mysterious
|
||||
"before citation" field is supported;
|
||||
- We have added support for jurabib, an amazing package to produce
|
||||
flexible citations that are especially well suited for the humanities
|
||||
and law fields;
|
||||
- Support for sectioned bibliographies (bibtopic) has been added;
|
||||
- the way bibtex is called is now customizable (as is the way the
|
||||
index processor is invoked).
|
||||
|
||||
** Improved microtypography support
|
||||
|
||||
LyX aims to produce superior typography. With 1.4, it supports:
|
||||
|
||||
- more blank characters (e.g. a "thin space", which should stand here
|
||||
between "e." and "g.");
|
||||
- inner and outer quotation marks without the hassle of toggling the
|
||||
style in the documents dialog. Just use the Alt key.
|
||||
- the handling of figure and table alignment inside floats has been
|
||||
improved. You can now use the paragraph dialog without getting too
|
||||
much space between figure/table and caption.
|
||||
|
||||
** Small bits
|
||||
|
||||
- Figure and table floats can be rotated sideways
|
||||
|
||||
- The external xfig inset has been improved especially with regard to
|
||||
pdf generation
|
||||
|
||||
- The graphics inset dialog has now an "edit" button that allows to
|
||||
edit the included figure
|
||||
|
||||
- For index generation, xindy can be used instead of makeindex, which
|
||||
has poor support for other than English index sorting.
|
||||
|
||||
** Bug fixes
|
||||
|
||||
Lots of long-lasting bugs have been fixed, as documented in LyX
|
||||
bugzilla. Probably some new ones have been introduced instead ;-)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Loading…
Reference in New Issue
Block a user